NatWest T20 Blast: The best and worst numbers so far
Friday 19 August 2016 11:40, UK
Thought the NatWest T20 Blast was all about fours and sixes? Then these numbers from Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange will make you think again…
Who is the only player to take a hat-trick in this season's competition? Which team has scored the highest total without including an extra? Who has scored the highest individual score so far?
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Highs and lows
Only one side has topped 240 in the competition so far - Sussex made 242-5 against Gloucestershire at Bristol, yet only won by one run after the Duckworth/Lewis Method intervened.
At the other end of the scale, Worcestershire were dismissed for just 53 by Lancashire at Manchester, the only total of less than 90 this season.
There were two victories by just one run - Yorkshire defeating Derbyshire at Derby and Hampshire beating Sussex at Hove. The closest win by wickets was Nottinghamshire's two-wicket win over Lancashire at Trent Bridge.
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Age no barrier
Worcestershire's youth policy is evident is the fact that they fielded the four youngest teams in the competition, headed by the 11 who faced Northants at Worcester who boasted an average age of 24 years 181 days. Every side they fielded averaged less than 26.
Azhar Mahmood of Surrey was the oldest player so far at 41 years 152 days when he faced Kent at The Oval. Darren Stevens and Paul Collingwood were the other 40-plus players to participate in the competition this year.
Surrey also had the season's youngest player in Sam Curran, who was just 17 years 352 days when he took the field against Essex at Chelmsford.
Big-hitters
Jason Roy has two of the eight centuries to be scored, but the highest individual score came from Tom Kohler-Cadmore, who smashed 127 from just 54 deliveries against Durham at New Road. His eight sixes were also a season high, equalled by Ross Taylor in his unbeaten 93 for Sussex against Gloucestershire at Bristol.
At the other end of the scale, Gordon Muchall's innings of 22 for Durham against Lancashire at Chester-le-Street was scored at better than a run a ball, but featured no boundaries.
Colin Ingram has hit the most sixes this year with 29. He is well ahead of Dan Christian and Ashar Zaidi on 23. Jason Roy's 64 fours lead that table, ahead of Michael Klinger's 58.
Aneurin Donald of Glamorgan was the only teenager to score a fifty, performing the feat not once, but twice.
Top bowlers
Essex's Dan Lawrence bowled the most economical spell of the summer, his four overs costing just 11 runs against Surrey at The Oval. Coughlin's haul contained a hat-trick, the only one in the competition so far this summer.
Two Durham bowlers each conceded 63 runs in a match this summer. Usman Arshad against Yorkshire at Leeds and Barry McCarthy against Worcestershire at Worcester.
Azeem Rafiq made the most of his return to Yorkshire, taking a wicket in 10 successive matches, more than anyone else managed in the competition this summer.
All-round ability
Chris Cooke made five dismissals behind the stumps for Glamorgan against Surrey at Cardiff - two more than any other keeper has managed in a match this season. Sussex's Matt Machan took five catches in the field against Glamorgan at Hove
Liam Dawson was the only player to score a half-century and take four wickets in the same match when he made 76 not out and took 4-23 for Hampshire against Glamorgan at Southampton.
Nottinghamshire's total of 146-2 against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge didn't contain a single extra. Extras top-scored with 26 in Glamorgan's total of just 101 against Sussex at Hove in which no batsman scored more than 13.
James Vince twice captained Hampshire when he was the youngest player in the side - the only captain to do that this summer.
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Overview
So far in this year's competition there have been: 36,100 runs, 1441 wickets, 8 centuries, 156 fifties, 182 byes, 563 leg-byes, 816 wides, 436 no-balls, 26,021 balls bowled.
Dismissals: 814 caught in the field, 279 bowled, 131 caught behind, 97 run out, 82 lbw, 38 stumped.
The finalists...
Only one of the four semi-finalists have won the trophy before - Northamptonshire in 2013.
Durham
Semi-finalists: 2008
Northamptonshire
Winners: 2013
Runners-up: 2015
Semi-finals: 2009
Nottinghamshire
Runners-up: 2006
Semi-finals: 2010
Yorkshire
Runners-up: 2012
Here is how they match up in terms of runs per over scored and conceded in the competition this year:
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